Large 8vo. xvi, 749pp, [3]. With seven plates (two coloured, one tinted) and 346 engraved illustrations in the text. Bound by J. Wright of London in contemporary blind-ruled brown half-morocco, marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt to spine, T.E.G. Rubbed, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of George Tudor to FEP, loss to upper corner of leaf 2H8, plates foxed.

The first edition of John Jackson's (1801-1848) monumental history of the art of wood-engraving. The work is a valuable source of information on contemporary engravers and their techniques, and is generous in its praise of Thomas Bewick, under whom Jackson had apprenticed.